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Mario Palanti and the Palacio Salvo: The Art of Constructing Skyscrapers

2013; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 5; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/grj.5.41825357

2329-1249

Virginia Bonicatto, Chris Miller,

Architecture and Art History Studies

In 1922 the Milanese architect Mario Palanti won an international competition and for the second time in his career gained the opportunity to design and construct a skyscraper: the Palacio Salvo in Montevideo, Uruguay. The building was commissioned by the Salvo brothers, a family of immigrant industrialists, and combined real‐estate investment with architectonic experiment. The documentation on this building in the collection of the Getty Research Institute affords a new perspective on Palanti's architecture. In the context of early 20th‐century Montevideo, this architect brought to bear his Milanese training on the new problems presented by the urban landscape; the result was a work that combined technical, formal, and functional innovation.